‘I'm Not The Same Girl I Was Before'

The Singer’s Reinvention Is Complete – And She’s Taking It On The Road

- Adrianna Zappavigna

Taylor Swift has served up musical realness for years now. But the sweet country crooner lamenting about forbidden romance on her breakthrough track Love Story in 2008 could not be more different to the leather corset-clad songbird we’ve seen take to the stage of late.

As she tours the world with her latest album offering, Reputation, Tay admits she needed a time out to really work out what she was all about 10 years on from stepping into the spotlight. ‘With all of the unbelievable things that happened… I decided I was going to live my life a little bit without the pressure on myself to create something,’ she says of the fours year hiatus she took when her 1989 world tour wrapped in 2015.

It was a clear nod to that beef with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, as well as her tumultuous split from boyfriend Calvin Harris.

But of course, the 28-year-old created something anyway, and is taking it around the world – and, man, is it epic. Reputation has already broken records – the video for its first single, Look What You Made Me Do, hit 19 million views in its first 24 hours – but what’s become evident since she embarked on her 2018 world tour is her personal transformation.

‘There will be no further explanation. There will just be Reputation,’ a new sexier and sassier Tay insists of the point she’s reached in her life. And here she is!

THE OLD TAY’S DEAD

Meet Taylor 2.0: she enjoys long walks to her golden throne, drinking whisky on ice and crafting songs that match Beyoncé’s Lemonade album in savagery.

‘I’m sorry, the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Oh! ’Cause she’s dead!’ she sings, setting the tone for her sixth studio album, Reputation. It’s aptly named, as the goal was to resurrect her image.